The Wuppertal textiles from what is now Indonesia came from Eduard von der Heydt, who gave them to the Städtisches Museum Wuppertal in 1937. The museum bought them from the art dealer Carel van Lier in Amsterdam. They were originally part of the curated collection of the German-Jewish banker Georg Tillmann, who lived in Amsterdam from 1932. Of the original 80 textiles, 68 have survived to this day, including fabrics from the islands of Java, Sumatra, Timor, Borneo and Bali in ikat, songket or batik techniques. Most of the pieces were created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when what is now Indonesia was under Dutch colonial rule. Former object number B 11. Sarong from Java. Fine, densely woven, plain-weave cotton fabric, decorated all over with batik tulis or batik kombanasi. The fabric surfaces are probably chintzed. The sarong is closed with a non-original stitched seam to form a tubular skirt, whereby 11 cm of the original woven length has been sewn in. The fell seam that originally closed the skirt was opened at an unknown date. Unfinished selvedges on the upper and lower edges of the sarong.